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dc.contributor.editorBest, Heinrich
dc.contributor.editorLengyel, György
dc.contributor.editorVerzichelli, Luca
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-10T12:58:18Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.date.submitted2013-12-31 23:55:55
dc.date.submitted2018-10-03 09:09:28
dc.date.submitted2020-04-01T14:58:39Z
dc.identifier453477
dc.identifierOCN: 794488351
dc.identifierhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33856
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35938
dc.description.abstractIt has been widely acknowledged that the process of European integration and unification was started and is still pursued as an elite project, designed to put an end to debilitating conflicts and rivalries by consolidating a common power base and by pooling Europe’s economic resources. Nevertheless elites have remained the known unknowns of the European integration process. The present volume is designed to change this. Based on surveys of political and economic elites in 18 European countries, it is a comprehensive study of the visions, fears, cognitions, and values of members of national parliaments and top business leaders underlying their attitudes towards European integration. It also investigates political and economic elites’ embeddedness in transnational networks and their ability to communicate in multicultural settings. Our book strongly supports the view of an elitist character of the process of European integration on the one hand, while challenging the idea that European national elites have merged or are even merging into a coherent Eurelite on the other. As the 11 chapters of this book show, the process of European integration is much more colourful and even contradictory than concepts of a straightforward normative and structural integration suggest. In particular this process is deeply rooted in and conditional on the social and political settings in national contexts. The empirical basis for this book is provided by the data of the international IntUne project, which has for the first time created a comprehensive database combining coordinated surveys of Europe-related attitudes at the elite and general population level.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPA Political science & theory
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPS International relations::JPSN International institutions::JPSN2 EU & European institutions
dc.subject.othereconomic elite
dc.subject.othereuropeanization
dc.subject.othereuropean institutions
dc.subject.otherrepresentation
dc.subject.othereuropeanness
dc.subject.othermultilevel governance
dc.subject.othereuropean identity
dc.subject.otherpolitical elite
dc.subject.othereuropean integration
dc.subject.othereuropean union
dc.subject.otherelite theory
dc.subject.othereuropean citizenship
dc.subject.otherMember state of the European Union
dc.subject.otherSupranational union
dc.titleThe Europe of Elites: A Study into the Europeanness of Europe's Political and Economic Elites
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199602315.001.0001
oapen.relation.isPublishedBydb4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1
oapen.relation.isFundedByOAPEN-UK
oapen.relation.isbn9780199602315
oapen.collectionOAPEN-UK
oapen.pages314
dc.relationisFundedBy780772a6-efb4-48c3-b268-5edaad8380c4


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